Desrosiers 1 shed, 11

We had this old wooden shed in the backyard when we moved in, I was convinced someone or something was living in it. Anyways our insurance compance wouldn't give us insurance unless we either put the shed on the ground, or removed it. The shed was up on cinder blocks and they were worried it would blow over.

Now, feel free to comment if you think that particular bit of bureaucratic nonsense is as ridiculous as I do, but since we have a chow chow State Farm is the only insurance company that will even insure us, so I do what they want.

So first step when demoing anything, remove the roof right? I honestly have no idea what I am doing but it seems if I could get the roof off with Kyle, then the rest should be easy... In retrospect we should have knocked out all the boards on all the walls first, then taken down one wall and let the roof come down...

After three of us step on rusty nails (I'm the only one who strikes skin rigt after Jenn tells me to be careful of the nail that I step on... Shes a witch, I swear it...) and are cut scraped and bruised, but the shed is firmly in the dumpster...

It was rotten almost to the core too, so it's a good thing I'm getting rid of it. At least, that's what I am going to tell myself when I shell out a couple of grand to by another one in a month...

I probably should have listened to her...

So things are progressing well, we've even got trim up in a couple of rooms, there will be a barrage of posts later this week when I get around to them, for now its night after night of working on the house... Patching drywall, replacing lights, recepticals, building a desk, you name it...

When we tore up the floor in my office we discovered a rank smell, mold worthy, but we didn't think it was mold. When we actually got the vinyl flooring up it was discovered to be the source of the smell! Once we got it outside the smell died down to almost nothing, except under the stair. We bought this neat product called Damp b Gone (real name to be added later) and while I was skeptical I thought 8$, its cheaper than most apps in the app store..

The premise is a bag of mystery stuff sitting over a canister. The mystery stuff apparently captures the water which is then considered brine (salt is involved somewhere, ya think?) and drops into the canister below... Again, sounds almost magical but I put it under the stairs and promptly forgot about it. This week the contractor was finally back to finish the flooring in the main room and he decided he would do the closet. He pulled out the damp b gone, and sure enough it was half full of water! However the mold smell was still pretty bad.

It was then that we found that we had a leak in a pipe, not just any pipe, but the main water pipe to the house. Now, you know I hate plumbing, and its the one thing that Jenn doesn't think I can do, so of course I have to prove her wrong...

Not sure if that video worked, and excuse the amateurish filming...:) I'm new to this..